I.foot-soldiers, foot, infantry (opp. equitatus, cavalry): “aliquem peditatu, equitatu, copiis instruere,” Cic. Phil. 5, 2, 6: “equitatum peditatumque cogere,” Caes. B. G. 5, 3.—In plur.: peditatibus et equitatibus celeriter iter faciens, Auct. B. Hisp. 37.
pĕdĭtātus , ūs, m. pedes,